Process as Practice: Experimental Painting Tools for Digital Craft (Week #3 Creative Futures Counterstructures)
Session #3 of tiat's Creative Futures Counterstructures Artist Residency program explores Rule #3 of the Mozilla Foundation's Hollywood 8 Rules for AI: Keep Friction in the Creative Flow.
During the workshop, Joel will be speaking about his research and practice on experimental interfaces for creativity and AI over the last seven years. He'll share some key learnings and how they've informed his current work, which has led to two experimental drawing tools built on ideas of craft and process.
Participants will get to explore both tools and create and share their own processes within them. Bring a laptop!
Joel Simon is a multidisciplinary artist, toolmaker, and researcher based in Berkeley. His work explores new metaphors for interacting with technology, aiming to enhance our ability to think and create in novel ways. How can computation meaningfully augment our creative processes and enable us to imagine the previously unimaginable? To explore this question, he creates artificial life simulations, machine learning tools, and massively collaborative online social networks. His experiments and artworks are motivated by the beauty of emergent systems observed in nature and the creative process.
He is currently part of Stochastic Labs and is the founder and director of Morphogen, a company that transforms new machine learning technologies into playful and accessible creative tools. He is the creator of Artbreeder, a massively collaborative machine learning/artist interface. His work has been applied in various domains, including generative architecture, AI imagery, creative social networks, and tools for fighting gerrymandering. Previously, he conducted bioinformatics research at Rockefeller University and studied computer science and art at Carnegie Mellon. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, conferences, and press outlets, including Ars Electronica, NeurIPS, and Science Friday.
The Creative Futures Counterstructures residency, is a 10-week program brought to you by TIAT and the Mozilla Foundation, where artists and technologists explore alternative approaches to AI and culture. Each week during the residency, we'll have public programming correlating to Mozilla's report, Hollywood’s 8 Rules for AI.
Learn more about the report: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-do/mobilize/imaginative-intelligences/
Learn more about the residency: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/creative-futures-counterstructures/
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